NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

dpns_getgrpbynam gets the virtual gid associated with a given group
name.
groupname
specifies the group name. It must be at most 255 characters
long.
gid specifies the address of a buffer to receive the Virtual Group
Id.

RETURNVALUE

This routine returns 0 if the operation was successful or -1 if the
operation failed. In the latter case, serrno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

EFAULTgroupname or gid is a NULL pointer.
EINVAL This group name does not exist in the internal mapping
table or the length of groupname exceeds 255.
SENOSHOST Host unknown.
SENOSSERV Service unknown.
SECOMERR Communication error.
ENSNACT Name server is not running or is being shutdown.